A recent report found decreases in education and health factors among Vermont youth.
Mental health crisis continues to affect Vermont youth despite high national ranking for child well-being
Tag: Education
Covid closed Vermont schools hundreds of times last year. How did that affect kids?
Data provided by the Agency of Education shows that Vermont schools cumulatively spent about 320 school days closed, or missing at least half their kids, during the 2021-22 school year.
In Vermont schools, a school year like no other scrambles disciplinary practices
Over the past year, schools have experienced what one superintendent called a “double whammy”: a deterioration in students’ behavior, and not enough staff to deal with it.
A climate report card for our schools: The big picture
What does climate education look like in Vermont's schools? And stepping back from the series, the project's student editors offer some last thoughts.
Vermont has rules about suspending students. Parents and advocates say some schools are breaking them.
Advocates say students are being pulled out of class without the legal suspension process. During the pandemic, they say, the practice has grown more common.
School Resource Officer or School Safety Officer: What's the difference?
A change at Bellows Free Academy-St. Albans gives shape to a question debated at schools across Vermont.
State, parents say Springfield schools fail to provide adequate special education
After an investigation, the Agency of Education found that Springfield did not provide services that a student with disabilities needed. Parents say that’s a pattern.
Then Again: Why Vermont's state superintendent wanted less power
Mason Stone must have felt like his creation had become a monster. Why else would he set out to kill it?
One of Vermont’s independent schools is hiking its tuition. Could that spell trouble for local public schools?
The Vermont Agency of Education will allow The Sharon Academy, a school in Windsor County, to receive more publicly funded tuition. Not everyone is happy about it.
Vermont social studies teachers find themselves shifting their curriculum to teach about the Ukrainian crisis
“It felt inauthentic to jump into the next unit and to continue with our curriculum, because of what’s going on in the world,” one Colchester teacher said.
College professors adapt to a world where international research is difficult to do
International research, hampered by Covid-19, faces an uncertain future.
Senate gives initial approval to retooling school funding formula
Legislation updating Vermont’s “pupil weights” — mathematical factors in the state’s school funding formula — passed an initial Senate vote with no apparent opposition.
Bill Schubart: Our communities, our schools, our children
We need to rethink our school systems, with a focus on the role they play in the well-being of our small towns and how they prepare succeeding generations for a complex and ever-changing world.
‘We’re going to be rebuilding for years’: After 2 years of the pandemic, school music programs face a long road back to normalcy
During the pandemic, few aspects of school were so dramatically transformed as band and choir classes. Now, as restrictions are lifted, teachers fear the effects of Covid-19 could linger for years.
